What is the squirmy thing?

Diver_C · Post by **Diver_C** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:28 am

Sergeant Pepper, RSDancey & I had a great dive last night at Cove 2. Towards the end of the dive, I came across this thing kind of squirming, waiving around, seemingly trying to catch some food or something. What is it? Thanks!

Rich

coachrenz · Post by **coachrenz** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:21 pm

I would love to see a cropped close-up view of this thing. Do you have any other views/angles.

Sergeant Pepper · Post by **Sergeant Pepper** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:27 pm

I actually saw more than one of these on our dive. At first I thought it was something that had burried itself. I noticed that it seemed to be spawning, or what have you, from the top.

Diver_C · Post by **Diver_C** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:39 pm

Tim, I was actually very close to it, and the actual picture is much larger. To see the largest picture I have posted on the web, press THIS

Tangfish · Post by **Tangfish** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 3:57 pm

It looks like a baby spice worm from Dune.

Diver_C · Post by **Diver_C** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:11 pm

Calvin, are you referring to my picture or your avatar's picture? Lol

Aquanautchuck · Post by **Aquanautchuck** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:18 pm

Well it kind of looks like one of those new age snorkels. If you look at the left bottom, you can see the mouth piece which is shaped like a clam.

If that is wrong then its a bottle neck off of a "Mad Dog" wine bottle.

Diver_C · Post by **Diver_C** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:33 pm

Wacky! So you think the clam shell and that thing are connected?? It never occurred to me.

Sergeant Pepper · Post by **Sergeant Pepper** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 7:48 pm

No positive ids yet huh??

DiverDown · Post by **DiverDown** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:24 pm

Calvin wrote:It looks like a baby spice worm from Dune.

nwscubamom · Post by **nwscubamom** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:56 am

Looks like a Red (aka Orange) Ribbon Worm (Tubulanus polymorphus) or some other kind of worm. I've seen them before at Cove 2 (and other places). You usually just see a portion of them sticking out of the sand.

Nice find and photo!

- Janna